Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Waddle

Waddle , intransitive verb

[Freq. of wade; compare Anglo-Saxon wadlian to beg, from wadan to go. See Wade.]

To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. — Shakespeare
She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. — Young

Waddle , transitive verb

To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [Rare] — Drayton